Lifetime Achievement award winner offers a sense of Mississippi

Patti Carr Black lauded as pioneer, visionary

11:19 PM,
Jun. 7, 2013

Patti Carr Black will be honored Saturday for lifetime achievement. She formerly directed the State Historical Museum at the Old Capitol and curated the Mississippi Story at the Mississippi Museum of Art.

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"I got that from Eudora's writings, of course, and from conversations with her," she said of celebrated Jackson author and longtime friend Eudora Welty, whose home a few blocks away is now a state museum and national landmark.

Around another corner or two is New Stage Theatre, with which both were long involved. Nearby downtown are the Old Capitol (former home of the state's history museum, which Black directed) and the Mississippi Museum of Art (where she guest curated its permanent exhibition). ...